Hello My Name is Billy
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Mike Peters and Billy Duffy : Coloursound
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HILLSIDE , IL I-290 Eisenhower Expwy Expy ( westbound -Wolf) / at Mannheim Exit 16 - Wolf Exit Road
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You ’ ve got to hand it to storied Cult guitarist Billy Duffy — he doesn ’ t bury the lede when it comes to late-breaking news stories . Only a minute into a recent phone call to discuss Coloursound — the ephemeral side project he and Alarm vocalist Mike Peters launched , then abandoned with a single album back in 1998 , which jolted back to lockdown life with a new Coloursound II followup — and he goes right for
07 • 2021 the topical jugular . He ’ ll be returning to his native Britain in a few weeks , he says , before announcing his secret reason for spending much of his pandemic in Los Angeles . “ I ’ ve been here for a little while , kind of writing and working on some Cult stuff , so I ’ ve been fairly busy ,” he reports from California since that ’ s where his longtime bandmate Ian Astbury is based . How is that traditionally dark vocalist faring in our more shadowy post-Covid times ? “ Ian ’ s alright ; he ’ s in good form ,” he replies . “ He ’ s deep in creative mode . And he ’ s a very sage individual , Ian , so I would imagine that there ’ s a lot of fuel out there right now for his thought process . And I ’ m sure he struggles , lyrically , although I ’ ve never written a lyric in my life .”
But Duffy , who just turned 61 , does recognize his own estimable strengths after all these years : How to underpin a charismatic singer like Astbury or Peters with a screaming , bone-crunching riff or a gut-pummeling barrage of power chords ; And always remembering to strike while the iron is hot , as in the new coronavirus era and its attendant downtime , wherein he and Peters picked up the long-dormant Coloursound dialogue from 1998 and carried it into new folk / metal II anthems like the Biblical doomsayer “ Revelation ,” a chugging “ Lightning Strike ,” and the sweeping single “ Paradise ( Free People ).”
And remarkably , the disparate Cult and Alarm mindsets merge perfectly , so well that all it took to launch this sophomore set was a simple guitar-lick demo that Duffy casually sent his old pal Peters in 2019 , which instantly triggered a vocal / lyrical response from him . And Peters — amidst a flurry of new Alarm releases and a steady flow of weekly live-streamed broadcasts from his home in Wales — somehow made room on his schedule for a Coloursound Renaissance , first by reissuing its out-of-print debut disc , then by jumping wholeheartedly into its followup . Duffy happily joined him for the full-length ride and for a handful of interviews to chart its creation as well as his own pandemic progress .
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